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We arrived in Kangneung a little later than expected because Readon woke up late, and we were behind schedule by about two hours. One we arrived on the East coast, we made Seorak-san our main excursion for the day. Our first stop was some temple on the way to Yangyang. As you can see, I’m [...]

Ras and I are leaving for a road trip tomorrow with Reardon to our former hometown of Kangneung (Gangneung).  Once we arrive on the east coast, we’ll drop by Seorak-san and and see if the leaves have started changing yet.  There won’t be time for hiking, so we’ll probably take the gondola instead.  Friday night [...]

It’s been a pretty easy week so far, with it being midterm week.  I don’t have regular classes, and my only obligation is teaching for 2 1/2 hours a day from Monday through Thursday.  Needless to say, I’m loving it.  This morning, Ras and I went to Yongsan to do some shopping.  He needed to [...]

Nathan’s party on Friday turned out to be fun and surprising.  Honestly, with him being a single guy, I wasn’t expecting much food at the party.  I mean, my Korean name is “Mi Hung-ri,” after all.  I made sure to eat before getting there, and we brought our own alcohol.  We met up with Bart [...]

That’s how Nathan pronounces “ajumma” and “ajoshi.” In all my time here, I’ve never heard “ah-jush-she” pronounced “a-josh-ee.” I’ve got to start using that more often. Anyway, we’re getting reading for Nathan’s party tonight. Using a 3,000 won limit, I went out and bought the tackiest shirt I could find. It’s a mesh-like material and [...]

After work last night, Ras, Bart, Dave, and I drove down to Ansan to get some dinner. Bart used to live there and said there were some pretty good foreign restaurants. One he heard of, but had never tried, was the Taj Mahal. Traffic was kind of heavy around 7pm, and it took us over [...]

Reardon’s parents are visiting Korea for a week and we went up to Seoul to have dinner with them last night.  We met them at The Grand Hyatt, where they are staying.  I’ve never been to the hotel, but it was pretty impressive.  The view was nice and everything looked expensive.  We had a round [...]

On Friday night, Ras and I drove down to Suwon and hung out with Jenay and some of her friends.  We had some drinks at her place and then went out for dinner at a tofu house.  Jenay, Hye-sun, Hye-jun (sisters), Ben, Ras, and I walked to the restaurant and had bosam and tofu.  A [...]

There are the pictures from last Thursday’s Flickr Launch Party in Gangnam.  Overall, it was a decent event.  Even though I was told there would be a limit on the number of people allowed in, it looked like a good number of people didn’t show.  The place was not packed at all, but you couldn’t [...]